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Wanting elderly and disabled women to be guaranteed same-sex intimate care is #NotACultureWar

@SVPhillimore Great piece about it.. x.com/i/status/20583…

I finally made it through the first part of the Origin Story podcast and will not pay for early access to the second. It is important to engage with what the other side say. It’s always important to keep checking the foundations of your belief. Could I be wrong? Whats alarming here is the complete absence of even any attempt to engage with WHY such diverse figures as JKR and Jesse Singal were concerned about gender identity, particularly for children. Singal is dismissed without any engagement other than to scoff that he interviewed detransitioners. The massive surge in numbers of girls to the Tavistock is not interrogated one iota. Not a single word about the poverty of the evidence base. Nothing about the nature of the abuse hurled at JKR but to say it must have been horrid and hey! It happened to me, just a few bad actors etc etc etc So I emerge with my convictions intact. These men are idiots. The constant sniggering I could endure, if it were propped up by any attempt, however feeble, to engage with why so many people were so alarmed. Keep sniggering chaps, we will get on with the dismantling and the restructuring.

I was in the middle of taping on my iPhone for a social video from the White House North Lawn when we heard the shots. It sounded like dozens of gunshots. We were told to sprint to the press briefing room where we are holding now.

STOP USING PEOPLE WITH DSD AS PROPS FOR GENDER IDEOLOGY This is Nick, better known as That XXY Guy. Nick has a Difference of Sex Development, a medical condition. He is also a man. A male. And he is furious that activists keep dragging people like him into arguments about transgender identity as though their medical conditions prove that human sex is imaginary, fluid, or somehow no longer male and female. His message is blunt because it needs to be: people with DSD are not a mythical “third sex”. They are not political exhibits. They are not a convenient shield to be held up every time someone points out that sex is real. Nick is male. His XXY condition does not make him less male. It does not make him “both sexes”. And it certainly does not exist to prop up an ideology he does not consent to represent. More importantly, this is not Nick standing alone. The UK charity dsdfamilies, which supports children, young people and families living with Differences of Sex Development, has repeatedly warned against conflating DSD with transgender identity. DSD concerns complex physical differences in sex development. Transgender identity is a separate issue entirely. After the Supreme Court ruling, dsdfamilies warned against the “oversimplification, misrepresentation and weaponisation of DSD/Intersex by third parties”, stating that such misuse increases stigma and may discourage people from accessing support. Read that again. The people activists keep using as their biological trump card are telling them to stop. This is what ideological capture looks like: people with real medical conditions are spoken over, misrepresented and reduced to poster children for a political argument they never asked to carry. So listen to Nick. Stop claiming people with DSD abolish the reality of male and female. Stop pretending their conditions are interchangeable with transgender identity. Stop using other people’s bodies, medical needs and lived experience as ammunition for an ideology that does not even respect what they are saying. People with DSD need proper medical support, dignity, understanding and a voice of their own. They do not need activists appropriating their conditions to deny biological reality. #sexisbinary

Great piece.

@owenjonesjourno If trans 'men' get put into male spaces, they are at risk of humiliation, abuse and rape. Anyone with any sense knows this. express.co.uk/news/uk/215748…

If trans women use men’s toilets, they will be subjected to humiliation, abuse and violence. Anyone with any sense knows this. Which is why in practice trans women will not use men’s toilets, and will just increasingly be driven out of society.

Do you have any evidence to back up this claim about violence, Owen? I have been unable to find a single news report of a trans woman being subjected to any violence in a men's toilet in the UK. As for 'humiliation and abuse', if trans women don't want to use unisex or accessible loos (why not? I do all the time 🤷)do you think the answer might be in educating men to be more accepting and tolerant rather than asking women to be human shields? Why don't you lead by example and state how welcome a trans woman would be in the gents with you?

@HodsonAnn @owenjonesjourno I've done my own searches, and asked different AI tools if they can help. There is NO evidence of this happening in the UK. It is irresponsible scare-mongering.

@GrumpyOW @owenjonesjourno Yup. I can’t find a single reported incident.

@DoyleTeaBag Well said. It makes me so mad. I cannot imagine what it is like for people with a DSD to be used like this.

I have been given permission to share this 'polite' message from Nick (aka That XXY Guy) to the trans activists that keep using his condition and all of us who happen to have a DSD condition. #SexIsBinary

@NoOnemklz @owenjonesjourno Simple proposal (and UK law): if someone is male, he is not allowed in female-only spaces. However he dresses or identifies.

@owenjonesjourno Simple proposal. If a trans woman has not completed the bottom surgery, she is not allowed in biological women’s private safe spaces.

@owenjonesjourno You really ought to show some solidarity towards transwomen, set a good example, Owen:

@owenjonesjourno x.com/BigTomBoye/sta…

Important legal opinion from the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies, written by Ben Cooper KC, on the lawfulness of housing trans women (biological men who identify as women) in the female prison estate: crimeandjustice.org.uk/legal-opinion-…

@benonwine Did you miss all the news stories in February?bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

A child allegedly walks into a school with a knife, stabs students, eyewitnesses claim he shouted “Allahu Akbar”… and the media barely talks about it. Why?

The 13-year-old boy, a former pupil, targeted students at Kingsbury High School in Brent, north-west London. He was arrested shortly after. Despite eyewitness reports that he shouted "Allahu Akbar," police never classified the incident as a terrorist attack and hardly any Mainstream media outlets covered the story either. On Tuesday, 10 February 2026, the suspect entered the school premises concealing a kitchen knife and an aerosol can of insect spray. He allegedly sprayed one child in the face, stabbed a 13-year-old in the neck, and then stabbed another child in the playground. The victims suffered serious injuries, requiring hospital treatment and surgery, though their conditions were later stabilized. The teenager was arrested around an hour after the incident after being seen at a nearby mosque, though authorities stated he had no specific connection to the place of worship.

@Conviction19c We're not. It was all over the news in February. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

How are we only hearing about this abhorrent case now?

@OyVeyPope It was reported in all the major media outlets, Michael. Including the BBC. I remember reading it at the time. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

One reason public trust in institutions is eroding is that people increasingly feel similar incidents receive very different levels of media attention and public scrutiny. When serious acts of violence involving children barely register nationally, people naturally start asking why. Consistency matters.

@JournalismSEEN @Telegraph It's very good apart from several pretty important errors in relation to Naomi Cunningham. I hope @Telegraph will correct and update. x.com/LoudBonnet/sta…

‘Legal world torn apart by trans rows despite Supreme Court ruling’ This is very good in @Telegraph Interviews with several lawyers including Sarah Phillimore and Naomi Cunningham Will hunt for gift link telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/…

What the heck has got into Amnesty International UK? The humanitarian charity - once known for campaigning for prisoners of conscience - has published an extraordinary report on the supposed rise of the UK’s “gender critical movement”. It reads less like a human rights document and more like a dossier on a dangerous extremist network. Except the “extremists” in question are largely women who do not want to get undressed in front of men. And who object to children being given life-altering medical treatment in the name of gender ideology. The report attempts to map “GC actors” and funding streams, while flagging supposedly concerning organisations such as @SexMattersOrg, @FiLiA_charity & @AllianceLGB. How did a once-respected organisation stray so far off course? I wrote about it for @unherd (link in comments below) 👇